Received my unit today. Ordered it on the 23rd and here it is on the 25th. Two days from CA to WA with free shipping? Wow! Nice looking unit. There was absolutely no documentation included. Not a single piece of paper.
Initial testing:
1. Manually added it using non-secure. It added nicely and created 13 devices - root, 6 Switches, and 6 Watts.
2. In device manager, each switch can be turned ON or OFF
3. If a switch is manually controlled, the status does not change in HS.
4. Plugged a lamp into switch 1. Lamp is ON. No change in the Watts
5. Went into the z-wave tab for the root device and changed polling interval from 0 to 2s.
6. Switch status and Watts are now updating. Watts shows the current Watts with 3 decimal points of precision (ie. 51.800)
7. When power is lost on the strip, when restored, all switches are ON. Tried to change parameter 3 but could not. For me, this is a big deal. Upon power up, all switches should return to their prior state.
8. After turning on polling, 6 additional devices got created. A KW Hours for each switch. It is the accumulated power in kWh. It also has 3 digits of precision.
9. A byproduct of turning on polling to 2s is that I get an entry for kWh and Watts each polling cycle. Not good. Went into each kWh and Watts device and turned off command logging.
10. Changed parm 0 (change % for reporting energy) but appeared to be no change.
I'm unclear as to how the wheel works and the color thing. If someone else has figured it out, please post.
That power on state of all being ON is really bothering me. Hopefully someone else might figure it out.
My preference is to not poll devices. Hopefully can figure out a way to not do that but keep status in sync.
It certainly is a nice switch for the money. I have the Zooz Zen20 and love it. This one is pretty comparable. Both capture and report energy usage about the same. The Zooz has 5 outlets and 2 USB outlets. This one has 6 outlets and no USB. However, Zooz Zen20 costs $79.95 on Amazon and this one is $19.99. If we can resolve the power on status, I'll be buying more.
Initial testing:
1. Manually added it using non-secure. It added nicely and created 13 devices - root, 6 Switches, and 6 Watts.
2. In device manager, each switch can be turned ON or OFF
3. If a switch is manually controlled, the status does not change in HS.
4. Plugged a lamp into switch 1. Lamp is ON. No change in the Watts
5. Went into the z-wave tab for the root device and changed polling interval from 0 to 2s.
6. Switch status and Watts are now updating. Watts shows the current Watts with 3 decimal points of precision (ie. 51.800)
7. When power is lost on the strip, when restored, all switches are ON. Tried to change parameter 3 but could not. For me, this is a big deal. Upon power up, all switches should return to their prior state.
8. After turning on polling, 6 additional devices got created. A KW Hours for each switch. It is the accumulated power in kWh. It also has 3 digits of precision.
9. A byproduct of turning on polling to 2s is that I get an entry for kWh and Watts each polling cycle. Not good. Went into each kWh and Watts device and turned off command logging.
10. Changed parm 0 (change % for reporting energy) but appeared to be no change.
I'm unclear as to how the wheel works and the color thing. If someone else has figured it out, please post.
That power on state of all being ON is really bothering me. Hopefully someone else might figure it out.
My preference is to not poll devices. Hopefully can figure out a way to not do that but keep status in sync.
It certainly is a nice switch for the money. I have the Zooz Zen20 and love it. This one is pretty comparable. Both capture and report energy usage about the same. The Zooz has 5 outlets and 2 USB outlets. This one has 6 outlets and no USB. However, Zooz Zen20 costs $79.95 on Amazon and this one is $19.99. If we can resolve the power on status, I'll be buying more.
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